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Hippie, as a name, derives from “hip”. “Hip“, a term applied to the literary trend known as “Beats”, which became very fashionable during the 1950s. We are talking about writers like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Although the Hippie, also…
1. Real name: Margaretha Zelle. 2. Place of birth: Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. 3. Date of birth: August 7, 1876. 4. How does Mata Hari die ?: Sentenced to death before a firing squad. 5. Where? In Vincennes, France. October 15, 1917. Mata…
Thomas Edison (Milan, Ohio. 1847-1931). E l Wizard of Menlo Park A prolific inventor, he created the first laboratory, in Menlo Park, New Jersey, dedicated to inventions with money earned from the sale of his quadruplex telegraph to the communication and financial services company…
Jean Valjean, the tormented protagonist of Victor Hugo’s “Les Misérables,” is one of the most famous characters in world literature. He has been the subject of numerous adaptations over the years, with the most well-known film portrayals by Gerard Depardieu…
Here are several fascinating facts about the life of the great traveler, Marco Polo: When his father and uncle undertook their first journey through unknown lands (as you can read in the biography of Marco Polo), Marco, who did not…
They have been incorporated into our daily lives as part of it naturally. Maybe for that reason, because they have been with us for more than a century. They are the modern inventions of the 19th century. This is the…
… That he came to marry Castile from the mysterious countries of the North: that Alfonso X “the Wise”, being unhappy because his wife, Violante de Aragón, daughter of Jaime I the Conqueror, did not give him heirs to his…